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Monday, 31 July 2017

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.

Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath. Goodreads
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Yes, that was exactly what I did not get from this book. That "OH NO"! feeling I had when reading The Girl on the Train.

It wasn't bad. It was quite a decent read. Just not what I have expected. I knew who the killer was before page 20 and I actually thought I was suppose to know who it was. Like Columbo, you know? You always know who the killer is and then the aim of the story is how Columbo is going to proof the ifs, hows and whys. At around page 130 I realized that was not the case. But I still knew who it was.

One thing I will definitely credit this book with, is the movie potential. I loved the book and the movie of The Girl on the Train and I still believe that Marc Platt did a great job in producing the movie. That book didn't have a strong movie-feel and it came out soooo good. My opinion. But Into the Water does have it. This book will make a GREAT movie.

1. There are one too many characters. Confuse the audience and call in Jessica Fletcher. She knows how to pick a random killer.

Oh too bad! I love the sound of this one but at the same time I haven't made any steps toward picking it up so maybe I don't want to read it that bad! I may end up waiting for the movie or at the very least the audio.

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I'm from South Africa and just as much as I love to see the Big Five in their natural habitat, I love to see words in their natural habitat - BOOKS. As an avid Book Explorer, I'll explore just about any genre, but my preferred grazing fields are: Mystery & Suspense; Crime & Thriller; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction and Christian. I started my own book blog in April 2016 and so far it's been one of the greatest safaris ever!

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